Oil-can



(No Model.)

H. J. RICHARDS.

- OIL CAN.

No. 41 ,345. Patented Dec. 3, 1889.

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HORACE J. RICHARDS, OF WVATERVLIET, NEXV YORK.

OIL-CAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,345, dated December 3, 1889.

Application filed June 5, 1889. Serial No. 313,205- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE J. RICHARDS, of lVatervliet, county of Albany, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oil-Cans, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in cans for containing oil or other liquids, to adapt them to be carried by a bail and so that they can be turned down on side supports to rest thereon, and with a faucet which will project laterally therefrom when turned down and project vertically when the can rests on the bottom proper and with the bail end uppermost.

Accompanying this specification, to form a part of it, there is a sheet of drawings, containing three figures, illustrating my invention, with the same designation of parts by letter reference used in all of them.

Of these illustrations, Figure 1 shows a perspective of the can with the bail and filling end uppermost. Fig. 2 shows it turned down on its side supports in a condition to have the contents drawn out by a faucet. Fig. 3 shows a cross-section taken through the can and one of its side supports.

The several parts of the can and its attached parts are designated by letter reference, and the function of the parts is described as follows: The letter O designates the body of the can; T, its cone-formed end, and E what is its bottom end when being carried by the bail B.

The letter T designates a filling-tube made in the cone-formed end fitted with a cap 29, and Fa'faucet projected therefrom in a line that is about parallel to the side of the can.

The letters S S designate rectangular supports, which at the ends of their sides S S are rigidly attached to each of the sides of the can, and therefrom are extended in a tangential direction to unite at right angles with the support proper S on which the can rests when turned down upon its side. This can as thus constructed may be carried by the.

bail to be filled, and when this has been done it can be placed upon a shelf and turned down to draw from, as required,without tilt- Signed at Troy, New York, this 1Sthday of April, 1889, in the presence of the two witnesses whose names are hereto written.

. HORACE J. RICHARDS. Witnesses:

CHARLES S. BRINTNALL, W. .E. HAGAN. 

